Education Information
1993
Ph.D. in Physics (Thesis advisors: Pr. A. Berger and Dr. G. Brasseur), Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium): la plus grande distinction
1988
“Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en Sciences Physiques,” Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium): la plus grande distinction
1987
“Licence en Sciences Physiques,” Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium): la plus grande distinction (highest honors)
Thesis Information
“Analysis of mass transport and potential vorticity budget in a simulated tropopause folding”, 1993. Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (available as NCAR/CT-142). Advisors: A. Berger and G. Brasseur
Professional Experience
2013-present
Senior Scientist, Atmospheric Chemistry Division and Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
2007-2013
Scientist III, Atmospheric Chemistry Division and Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
2008-2009
Senior Research Associate, Chemical Sciences Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado (on leave from NCAR)
2004-2007
Scientist II, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
2002-2004
Scientist I, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
1997–2002
Project Scientist I (research area: data assimilation), National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
1995–1997
Visiting Scientist (research area: stratosphere-troposphere exchange), National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
1993–1995
Postdoctoral fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
1990–1993
Graduate Research Assistant, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
1987–1990
Research Assistant, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)
Community Service
External committees
- Steering committee member of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA) (2004-2014)
- Co-chair of the CESM Chemistry-Climate Working Group (2007-2014)
- CESM scientific steering committee member (2010-2014)
- REKLIM (Helmholtz Society Project) Science Advisory Board (2010-2014)
- IPCC AR5 Lead author on Chapter 8: Radiative forcing (2010-2013)
- IPCC AR5 Contributing Author on Chapter 6: Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles
- Co-chair of the IGAC/SPARC Chemistry Climate Model Initiative (2012-2015)
- Scientific Steering Committee member of of the IGAC/SPARC Chemistry Climate Model Initiative (2015-present)
- Oak Ridge National Lab Climate Change Science Institute Advisory Board (2014-present)
- CESM Chief Scientist (2014-present)
- ECMWF Copernicus Services External Evaluation Expert (2015-present)
Internal committees
- Participant to the NCAR Strategic Plan Retreat (June 2005)
- Participant to the ESSL Strategic Plan Retreat (July 2005)
- Chairman of the Early Career Scientist Assembly (February 2006-June 2007)
- Member of the NCAR Scientist Assembly Executive Committee (February 2006-June 2007)
- Member of the ACD Director Search Committee (August 2006-January 2007)
- ACD representative to the NCAR Internal Science Advisory Committee (October 2011-present)
- ACD representative to the NCAR Allocation Panel (Yellowstone allocations 2012 and 2014)
- Member of the CISL SRAP for NWSC-2 Procurement (2015)
Workshop organizer/co-organizer
- Chemistry-Climate Interactions, Santa Fe, NM, February 2003.
- NCAR Emission workshop, Boulder, CO, July 2003.
- Chemistry-Climate Interactions, Santa Fe, NM, February 2004.
- Chemistry-Climate Interactions, Boulder, CO, February 2005.
- PETM Data-Model Integration Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, May 2007.
- Emissions for IPCC AR5, Paris, France, May 2008.
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP), Toulouse, France, April 2011.
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP), Pasadena, CA, February 2012.
- IGAC/SPARC Global Chemistry-Climate Modeling and Evaluation, Davos, Switzerland, May 2012.
- Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative, Boulder, CO, May 2013.
- Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative, Lancaster, UK, May 2014.
- GEIA Science Conference, Boulder, CO, June 2014.
- “Experimental design for CMIP6: Aerosol, land use, and future scenarios” AGCI workshop, Aspen, CO, August 2014.
- IPCC Expert meeting on Scenarios, May 2015.
- Energy Modeling Forum, July 2015
- AGCI Workshop on “Impact Relevance and Usability of High Resolution Climate Modeling and Datasets”, August 2015.
- Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative and AerChemMIP, Frascati, Italy, October 2015.
Professional reviews
1. Funding agencies
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
- Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium)
- Science Foundation (Ireland)
2. Journals
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Atmospheric Environment
- Chemical Society Reviews
- Climatic Change
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Geoscientific Model Development
- Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres
- Monthly Weather Review
- Nature/Nature Geoscience/Nature Climate Change
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Community Service
1. Climate Science Fly-in February 2011
2. Summer schools
- “Asia in the 21st century” ASP Colloquium, Boulder, CO, U.S.A., 2010.
- “Atmospheric Chemistry in the Community Atmosphere Model” at the “Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) Tutorial 2009” in Boulder, CO, U.S.A., 2009.
- “Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry” at the "ACCENT/ENSEMBLES Next Generation Summit" in Interlaken, Switzerland, 2008
3. Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) Protégés
- Okason Morrison, 2003
- Eowyn Connolly-Brown, 2010
4. Undergraduate Student Supervision and Mentoring
- Edouard Davin, 2003
- Thomas Laepple, 2003, 2005
5. Graduate Student Supervision and Mentoring
- Gabrielle Pétron, 2000-2003
- Florence Bocquet, 2005-2006
- Gabriela Santos, 2007-2008
- Benjamin Black, 2011-2013
- Elizabeth Asher, 2014
6. Postdoc mentoring
- Ryan Neely, 2013-2014
- Yangyang Xu, 2014-Present
7. Thesis jury member
- Martine Michou (U. Toulouse, France), 2005
- Tianyi Fan (U. of Colorado), 2007-2012
- Benjamin Black (MIT), 2013
- Maya George (IPSL, Paris, France), 2011-2014
- Martin Keller (U. Toronto, Canada), 2014
- Daniel Broman (U. of Colorado), 2015-
Honors/Awards
1. 2014 Highly Cited Researcher (from Thomson Reuters Web of Science), also see http://sciencewatch.com/sites/sw/files/sw-article/media/worlds-most-influential-...
2. December 2013: Nomination for UCAR Best Publication award
3. April 2009: NASA Group Achievement Award for ARCTAS campaign
4. December 2007: Nomination for UCAR Best Publication award
5. December 2006: UCAR Outstanding Accomplishment Awards for Scientific and Technical Excellence for the MOPITT instrument
Research Grants
1. August 2005: NCAR Opportunity Fund FY 2006 (co-PI): $117,142 (1 year)
2. September 2006: NCAR Opportunity Fund FY 2007 (PI): $69,342 (1 year)
3. September 2006: Department of Energy (co-I): $950,000 (per year for 5 years)
4. March 2011: NCAR Diversity Fund (PI): $45,000 (1 year)
5. September 2011: Department of Energy (PI): $1,025,000 (for 3 years)
6. September 2014: National Science Foundation (PI): $1,132,174 (for 5 years)
Computational resources
1. Climate System Laboratory 2014-2016 (PI): 230M core-hours
Talks at Scientific Meetings and Workshops
1. NOAA Climate Model Development Team (webinar), 2015.
2. Climate Modeling Forum, Washington, D.C., 2015.
3. ACiTES workshop, York, UK, 2014: Keynote presentation
4. IPCC-WCRP, Bern, Switzerland, 2014: Keynote presentation
5. AGU, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. 2013: Invited talk
6. WCRP CMIP6 Planning meeting, Aspen, CO, 2013.
7. Energy Modeling Forum, Snowmass, CO, 2013.
8. CESM Workshop, Breckenridge, U.S.A., 2013.
9. AGU, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. 2012: Talk and Session organizer
10. AURA Science Team Meeting, Pasadena, CA, 2012.
11. Energy Modeling Forum, Snowmass, CO, 2012.
12. CESM Workshop, Breckenridge, U.S.A., 2012.
13. AGU, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. 2011: Invited talk and Session organizer
14. Socioeconomic Pathways for Climate Change Research Workshop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A, 2011
15. WCRP Open Science Conference, Denver, CO, U.S.A, 2011
16. 15th Session of the JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM), Boulder, CO, U.S.A, 2011
17. First ACCMIP Workshop, Toulouse, France, 2011.
18. AGU, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. 2010: Invited Talk and Session organizer
19. Summer Colloquium on Earth System Modeling, Beijing, China, 2010.
20. CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, U.S.A. 2010.
21. European Geophysics Society, Vienna, Austria, 2010.
22. DOE SciDAC Science Team meeting, Washington DC, U.S.A., 2010
23. 13th Session of the JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM), San Francisco, CA, U.S.A, 2009
24. CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, U.S.A. 2009.
25. CCMVal Workshop, Toronto, Canada, 2009.
26. International Workshop on Global Change Projection: Yokohama, Japan, 2009.
27. PMIP Conference, Estes Park, 2008.
28. IGAC Conference, Annecy, France, 2008.
29. CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, U.S.A. 2008.
30. IPCC workshop on emissions, Paris, France, 2008.
31. Energy Modeling Forum/IAMC-AIMES workshop: Washington, DC, 2008.
32. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 2007
33. IPCC Expert meeting on new scenarios, Noordwijkerhout (Netherlands), 2007.
34. IGAC Scientific Steering Committee meeting, Leavenworth, WA, U.S.A., 2007
35. Energy Modeling Forum, Snowmass, CO, U.S.A., 2007
36. CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, U.S.A., 2007
37. NCAR workshop on the PETM, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A., 2007
38. Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007
39. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 2006
40. DOE CCSP, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2006
41. Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Boulder, CO, U.S.A., 2006
42. Aspen Global Change Institute, Aspen, CO, U.S.A., 2006
43. CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, U.S.A., 2006
44. European Geophysical Society, Vienna, Austria, 2006
45. DOE ASP meeting, Alexandria, DC, U.S.A., 2005.
46. CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, U.S.A., 2005
47. ACCENT/IPCC AR-4 Workshop, Oslo, Norway, 2005
48. IGAC, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2004
49. Joint GEIA/ACCENT Workshop, Paris, France, 2004
50. GEIA Workshop on fires, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, 2002
51. European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, 2001
52. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 2000
53. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2000
54. SPARC data assimilation workshop, Laurel, U.S.A., 2000
55. Journées scientifiques sur l'assimilation d'observations de la chimie atmosphérique, Paris, France, 1999.
56. XXI General Assembly of the IUGG, Invited Talk on ''Modeling of Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange'', Session MW5, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 1995.
57. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1993.
Participation in other Scientific Meetings, including posters.
1. Climate Change Prediction Program, Cambridge, MA, 2006.
2. Climate Change Science Program, Washington, DC, 2005.
3. Climate Change Prediction Program, Seattle, WA, 2004.
4. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 2003.
5. Climate Change Prediction Program, Charleston, SC, 2003.
6. Gordon Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Newport, RI, 2001.
7. American Geophysical Union, Boston, MA, 2001.
Invited Talks at Universities and Laboratories
1. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, 2015.
2. Carnegie Institution, Stanford University, 2015.
3. University of Colorado, Boulder, 2014.
4. Oak Ridge National Lab., Oak Ridge, 2013.
5. Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany, 2012.
6. University of Toronto, Toronto, 2009.
7. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
8. Nara Women’s University, Nara, Japan, 2000.
9. Köln University, Köln, Germany, 1994.
10. National Center for Meteorological Research, Toulouse, France, 1993.
